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Issue Details

Issue	#24
Published	September-October 1943
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	60
Editing	Whitney Ellsworth (credited editor); Jack Schiff (actual editor)

Cover Details

Characters	Superman
Genre	superhero
Pencils	Jack Burnley
Inks	Jack Burnley
Reprinted	in Superman Archives (DC, 1989 series) #6 (2003); in Superman in the Forties (DC, 2005 series) #nn

12 page Superman story "Perils of Poor Lois!"

Characters	Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Editor Lane; Sam Wheet; Squire Squeazel (villain); Black Jack (villain)
Synopsis	After viewing a rather bad old-time melodrama, Clark gets a great idea (to him anyway): have Superman star in an old-fashioned melodrama with Lois as the heroine to be rescued.
Genre	superhero
Script	Don Cameron [as Jerry Siegel] (signed)
Pencils	Ed Dobrotka [as Joe Shuster] (signed)
Inks	Ed Dobrotka [as Joe Shuster] (signed)
Notes	Imaginary story--first one ever?
Reprinted	in Superman Archives (DC, 1989 series) #6 (2003)

1 page Private Pete filler "The Superman Badge"

Characters	Pvt. Pete
Genre	humor; military
Script	Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Pencils	Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Inks	Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Letters	Henry Boltinoff
Notes	This filler was NOT reprinted in the Archive.

12 page Superman story "The King of Crackpot Lane!!"

Characters	Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Perry White; Jimmy Olsen (not named); George; Louie Dolan (intro); Conk Kohler (villain; intro); Vortz (villain; intro)
Synopsis	When Lois and Clark are given a tour of the War Department, they are told of a place called "Crackpot Lane", a place where the most far-fetched inventions and ideas to end the war end up. However, some of a screwball inventor's inventions actually work and that interests some Fifth Columnists operating out of a sanitarium.
Genre	superhero
Script	Jerry Siegel (signed)
Pencils	Peter Riss [as Joe Shuster] (signed)
Inks	Peter Riss [as Joe Shuster] (signed)
Reprinted	in Superman Archives (DC, 1989 series) #6 (2003)

Half page Gags filler "untitled"

Genre	humor
Script	Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Pencils	Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Inks	Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Letters	Henry Boltinoff
Notes	This filler did NOT appear in the Archive.

2 page text story "Words of Fire"

Genre	adventure
Script	Jeffry Allen (signed)
Letters	typeset
Notes	This text story did NOT appear in the Archive.

1 page Life's Little Laffs filler "untitled"

Genre	humor
Script	Ray Houlihan (signed)
Pencils	Ray Houlihan (signed)
Inks	Ray Houlihan (signed)
Letters	Ray Houlihan
Notes	This filler did NOT appear in the Archive.

11 page Superman story "Surprise For Superman"

Characters	Superman [Clark Kent]; Perry White; Lois Lane; Bernice Brainard (intro; Lois Lane's Aunt); Lionel Brainard (intro; Bernice's husband); Tex O'Tagg (villain); The Cobra King (villain; intro); Lefty (villain); Bosco (villain)
Synopsis	After Lois and Clark have a pretty serious spat, Superman is asked for his advice on how to settle the argument, and gives it to Lois. Lois feels the best place to make amends is at the surpise birthday party for Clark that evening, but she wants Superman to attend. The only thing Clark can think of is to hire a double to play the role of Superman at the party, not knowing the man is actually a criminal!
Genre	superhero
Script	Don Cameron [as Jerry Siegel] (signed)
Pencils	Ed Dobrotka [as Joe Shuster] (signed)
Inks	George Roussos [as Joe Shuster] (signed)
Notes	The Daily Planet Building with the globe atop it (but without the ring) appears in this story.
Reprinted	in Superman Archives (DC, 1989 series) #6 (2003)

1 page Jerry the Jitterbug filler "The Practical Joker"

Characters	Jerry the Jitterbug
Genre	humor; teen
Script	Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Pencils	Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Inks	Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Letters	Henry Boltinoff
Notes	This filler did NOT appear in the Archive.

11 page Superman story "Suicide Voyage!"

Characters	Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Perry White; Colonel Randall (intro); Radio Joe; Oberleutnant Kapff (villain); the Nazis (villains); the Japanese (villain)
Synopsis	Shot down by enemy gunfire and severely wounded, Colonel Randall and his men take on a group of Nazis and Japanese in the Arctic, where the enemy hopes to establish their own aerial route.
Genre	superhero
Script	Don Cameron [as Jerry Siegel] (signed)
Pencils	Ed Dobrotka [as Joe Shuster] (signed)
Inks	George Roussos [as Joe Shuster] (signed)
Reprinted	in Superman Archives (DC, 1989 series) #6 (2003)